As organizations continue their rapid digital transformation, the security landscape in 2024 is being reshaped by two key factors: Such factors as the increased use of cloud solutions in business processes and the constant improvement of cyber threats.
Cloud transformation has brought new threats into the enterprise realm, primarily using landscape security models that are not sufficient for today?s decentralized workforce and data.
In this context, two promising solutions are the so-called Zero Trust and security solutions based on artificial intelligence. It focuses on how such technologies are defining cloud security in the year 2024, and part of trying to calm down the increasing threat levels.
The Zero Trust Cloud Security Model
Overview of Zero Trust
Zero Trust is such a model in cloud security adopted from the idea that does not trust anything and constantly verifies it; in contrast to the traditional security models that implicitly presume trusting devices and users within a corporate network, for instance.
As a result, each user, device, or application has to be verified and subsequently re-verified for authentication, using factors irrespective of location and prior conduct in the process of accessing any resource.
Zero Trust becomes necessary due to the migration to cloud services that go beyond on-premises infrastructures.
In the current world, more than before, traditional network-bound security is not adequate for an enterprise since the new structure means that all requests for data should be considered dangerous and authenticated.
This transformation removes the trust premise of all users connected by the company as a trustworthy group making the defense model more secure and solid against current threats.
Importance of Zero Trust in Cloud Security
Evolving Threat Landscape
In the past few years, the attacks advanced persistent threats (APTs), ransomware, and insider threats demonstrating the inefficiency of traditional security approaches. Threats today are more sophisticated in that they can infiltrate past perimeters to make attacks from inside using stolen or phished credentials as well as compromised machines.
However, these risks are eliminated through Zero Trust since it continually checks and authenticates connections, and does not allow multi-factor access.
As per the survey, 67% of cybersecurity professionals are more worried about data loss and leakage in the cloud; therefore, the significance of Zero Trust in securing an organization?s critical data is further amplified.
Other key issues include breaches of confidentiality (53%) and threats to data privacy (61%), which Zero Trust deals with by preventing lateral movement around the network and, therefore, shrinking the attack surface.
https://www.gsdcouncil.org/blogs/cloud-security-zero-trust-and-ai-against-rising-threats
